Congratulations! You made it! You survived and excelled in your student teaching. You are now a science teacher! If you would, take a few minutes to share your wisdom about how to negotiate this difficult year with the students who are following in your footsteps by answering the following questions.
a. What are some things students can do in their fall practicum to make their student teaching go more smoothly?
I found that knowing my CT's routine and incorporating it into my instruction helped me out in the spring because the students react better when you make your routine somewhat like the teacher's. It was also helpful teaching as few lessons to the classes before student teaching. Even if they were short mini lessons it gets you comfortable in front of the students and it also gets the students comfortable with you teaching because they start to get used to you being front and center in to the class.
b. What 430 topics/assignments should students make sure are addressed in detail to prepare them for student teaching?
I think being organized with lesson planning was key to being prepared for student teaching. Also, creating your unit plan on the topics you are going to teach is really helpful because you have all of your sheets and ideas planned out and all they need is a little tweaking. It becomes a lot harder when having to start everything from scratch.
c. Help the next group of science education student teachers by completing the thought: "If I knew in September what I know now, I could have done a better job during student teaching if I had ...."
Made my unit plan on a topic that i was going to be teaching during my student teaching.
d. Are there other words of wisdom/encouragement that you want to share?
a. What are some things students can do in their fall practicum to make their student teaching go more smoothly?
I found that knowing my CT's routine and incorporating it into my instruction helped me out in the spring because the students react better when you make your routine somewhat like the teacher's. It was also helpful teaching as few lessons to the classes before student teaching. Even if they were short mini lessons it gets you comfortable in front of the students and it also gets the students comfortable with you teaching because they start to get used to you being front and center in to the class.
b. What 430 topics/assignments should students make sure are addressed in detail to prepare them for student teaching?
I think being organized with lesson planning was key to being prepared for student teaching. Also, creating your unit plan on the topics you are going to teach is really helpful because you have all of your sheets and ideas planned out and all they need is a little tweaking. It becomes a lot harder when having to start everything from scratch.
c. Help the next group of science education student teachers by completing the thought: "If I knew in September what I know now, I could have done a better job during student teaching if I had ...."
Made my unit plan on a topic that i was going to be teaching during my student teaching.
d. Are there other words of wisdom/encouragement that you want to share?